Inside out model

museummaker · 24 May 2009, 17:34

I am working on this stone house which I started with a photomatch. I was working quite awhile and turned off the textures and discovered that virtually the whole model is inside out.

I selected all and inverted the faces but it turns into more of a mess.

Is there some other easy and easy way to invert?

Any ideas?

Aerilius · 24 May 2009, 17:43

Your model seems to show currently only the front side. I would try to flip the whole wall along the green axis. If it does not work, I would extract parts of it, flip, and put them together again.

edit: I missunderstood. You want to reverse the faces (blue->white) while keeping the textures on the frontside. I'm not sure if there is a plugin that does not the same as 'reverse face'. Another way would be to press alt + paint bucket for sampling each texture, orbit on the other side an paint. Maybe you would only need to do this for the large wall and then make it projected on the details. For the details, that's not much difference.

thomthom · 24 May 2009, 19:51

You can invert all by selecting all faces and RightClick->Reverse Faces. Or, if not all faces are the wrong side out; rightclick on one of the faces that are the right direction and choose Orient Faces.

boofredlay · 24 May 2009, 21:07

Patrick, I have had luck with this plugin:
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?p=98668#p98668

Front Face.
You activate the command (click the icon) and then start hovering over your model. Any face that is showing the back side will automatically reverse to show the front face. It works great when I have to bring a Revit model into SU.

museummaker · 24 May 2009, 21:43

The plug in worked really well but

I saved a backup, this one may end up in the do not render pile.

Has anyone had this trouble with photomatch before, could be my user error.